Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Fluorine-18 and Deuterium Labeled l-Fluoroalanines as Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Agents for Cancer Detection.
J Med Chem
; 67(12): 10293-10305, 2024 Jun 27.
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ABSTRACT
To fully explore the potential of 18F-labeled l-fluoroalanine for imaging cancer and other chronic diseases, a simple and mild radiosynthesis method has been established to produce optically pure l-3-[18F]fluoroalanine (l-[18F]FAla), using a serine-derivatized, five-membered-ring sulfamidate as the radiofluorination precursor. A deuterated analogue, l-3-[18F]fluoroalanine-d3 (l-[18F]FAla-d3), was also prepared to improve metabolic stability. Both l-[18F]FAla and l-[18F]FAla-d3 were rapidly taken up by 9L/lacZ, MIA PaCa-2, and U87MG cells and were shown to be substrates for the alanine-serine-cysteine (ASC) amino acid transporter. The ability of l-[18F]FAla, l-[18F]FAla-d3, and the d-enantiomer, d-[18F]FAla-d3, to image tumors was evaluated in U87MG tumor-bearing mice. Despite the significant bone uptake was observed for both l-[18F]FAla and l-[18F]FAla-d3, the latter had enhanced tumor uptake compared to l-[18F]FAla, and d-[18F]FAla-d3 was not specifically taken up by the tumors. The enhanced tumor uptake of l-[18F]FAla-d3 compared with its nondeuterated counterpart, l-[18F]FAla, warranted the further biological investigation of this radiotracer as a potential cancer imaging agent.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Fluorine Radioisotopes
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Radiopharmaceuticals
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Positron-Emission Tomography
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Deuterium
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Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Med Chem
Journal subject:
QUIMICA
Year:
2024
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Article
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